Quotes and Sayings About Rude
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aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
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The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
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You're free to join us, but only if you promise not to stare at the new kid." Miles laughs. "Staring is very rude. Didn't anyone ever tell you that?
-- Alyson Noel -
I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.
-- Amy Chua -
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I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
-- Andrew Marr -
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
-- Aubrey BeardsleySource : Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
-- Barry Manilow -
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
-- Bear Grylls -
You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
-- Bernardino of Siena -
Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.
-- Bisco Hatori -
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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
-- Bryan Adams -
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
-- Catherine Crier -
Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.
-- Charles WheelanSource : Charles Wheelan (2010). “Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.
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If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.
-- Chris DaughtrySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2002.
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For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.
-- Christian BaleSource : "Interview With “Kyle XY” Actress Jaimie Alexander". Interview with Linda Craddock, www.sliceofscifi.com. January 17, 2008.
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Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.
-- Christine Lavin -
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Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
-- Cindy Sherman -
I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.
-- Clive AndersonSource : "So, Clive, why did it all go wrong?" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2001.
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Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
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Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.
-- Cornelia Otis SkinnerSource : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”
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Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.
-- Craig Ferguson -
I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,†Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?†“Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,
-- Daniel AbrahamSource : Daniel Abraham (2011). “The Dragon's Path: Book 1 of The Dagger and the Coin”, p.104, Hachette UK
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,
-- Daniel Dennett -
Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
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He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.
-- David Baldacci